Two antiquarian books lie before me. The first is a copy of George Wharton Edwards’ Vanished Halls & Cathedrals of…
Before the advent of Islam, Somalia was a land of demons and giants. There were no mosques back then, no…
Editor’s Note: After Ukrainian officials first said all the defenders of Serpent Island had been killed, Ukrainian Defense Ministry officials…
Members of the commercial, political, and cultural elite — the so-called “superclass” — are notoriously willing to overlook the human…
Let us not accuse modern man of having killed God — that crime is not within his reach — but…
Paris, 1954 It is the evening of the eighth of December, and Henry de Montherlant’s newest play, Port-Royal, is premiering…
Tragedy is a gift from the gods to men. I am not talking about the tragedy of the tragic poets….
Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza….
I do not yearn for a virgin nature, a nature without the peasant’s ennobling footprint and without the palace crowning…
Having witnessed the rising action in Grisy-Suisnes, the climax in the Chamber of Deputies, and the denouement that followed, it…
